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Historical Event on 11/7/1966

Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1922Museum of Prince of Wales, situated at Mumbai, opened for public.
2/25/1886Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave 'Narmad', social reformer and famous Gujrati litterateur, passed away.
10/3/1994Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died.
2/12/1996President S.D. Sharma in Kerala.
8/11/1908Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers.
8/15/1997Freedom fighter's pension to be doubled from the existing Rs. 1,500.
11/14/2000Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office.
7/18/1997Fifth Pay Commission report approved by Central Govt.
1/16/1966Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune.
12/20/1978Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment.